Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-29
4 NEW JERSEY ROMANCE.
How the Study of the Tramp Question
Resulted In "A Marriage.

How the Study of the Tramp Question
Resulted In "A Marriage.
/ PHILADELPHIA, PA, July I3.-Clarenct
Giddens, son Of ex-Representative Gid
dens, who lives at the Irvine house, Phils
delpais, was married On the Fourth Of
July to Miss Madge Carroll, ST the home
of her father, Jacob Carroll s well-to-dc
farmer Of Gloucester county, New Jersey
and thereby hangs tale thst teens with
romance.
Young Mr.. Giddens, who is barely
twenty-five years OF age, wanted TO study
thu tramp question, and 50 he purchased
al outfit of second hand clothing from j
South street dealer, and having allowed
his besrd TO grow for fortnight IN
checked he donned his rude apparel and
set out on his iaunt. About the end Of
the third week of his tramp the young
man slept in Mr.. CsrrOll's barn When
the cocks crew be was usually up and
away, aud on this particular morning he
was about to fOrsske his nest in the hay
loft when he fell about thirty feet to g
stone courtyard below. He struck on his
head, and was so stunned that he lay
there for Q long while quite unconscious.
II appears that Miss Madge Was the owner
OF dspple gray mare that was her
especial pride and Joy, and that
she permitted no hand to touch but hers.
T1st morning, when the sun was peep
Ing over the eastern hill tops, she
came cut to groom her equine pet, and on
her way 10 the stable she almost stun
5icd over Mr.. Gidden's unconscious
form. she called one of the farm hands
and together the two carried the poor
fellow INTO the farmhouse and placed him
on a sofa in the big, old-fsshioned
parlOr Then she bathed his face and
temples, and presently consciousness re-
turned TO reward her efforts. Young
Gidde1's eyes 10 sooner met those Of
Miss Carroll than he knew he hld seen
his late. An that dav he remained a. the
farmhouse, and that night, 1T the daugh-
ter's solicitation, farmer Carroll permit
ted him TO sleep on g cot in the garnet,
The next morning he was well enough to
Jog onward, ne said, and away he went,
having carefully avoided, while he was ct
the house, giving any Clew to the fact
that he was not what he pretended to be-
This little episode, however, ended his
tramp. He came back 20 Philadelphia by
train and two days later ne returned 10
SwedesbOrO, the nearest village TO the
Carroll farm. He secured board there al
the hotel and at once set about ObtaiuiDg
an Introduction TO Miss Carroll. He was
now clean shavea and vel! dressed, and
in Mr.. Giddens OF Philadelphia, whom
AIsdge met at church strawberry festi-
val q short time later, she did net rcCOg-
Gize the poor tramp she had succOced.
Clarence GiddeIS' love making was Of
the passionate kind, seldom met with in
these days. lie had known the girl
scarcely q week when he proposed mar
risge, and he mad made such good use of
mis- opportunities, meanwhile, that she
did not hesitate TO accept him. Farmer
Carroll made inquiries concerning him in
this city, discovered that he was weli-to-
do and that his character was irrepTOaCh-
able, and so gave his consent. Then it
was, and then only, that Mr. Giddens told
MS tsnCe of how he had first seen her
md the circumstances under which he
lad fallen madly in love with her.